From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: replace 'vi' for 'editor' to reflect build-time option Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:16:05 -0700 Message-ID: <7v398qq1ei.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20120330002543.2138.91961.reportbug@localhost6.localdomain6> <20120330005523.GA28519@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Rodrigo Silva \(MestreLion\)" , git@vger.kernel.org, Ben Walton To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 30 04:16:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDRNu-000868-RW for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:16:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759944Ab2C3CQJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:16:09 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:47843 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759914Ab2C3CQH (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:16:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A0573DD; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:16:07 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=VvhE2rPKzQBDOKlxqOH/+ioQj4k=; b=Kzgmvj o+12whs4L97Mgzr1AacxGpSjxmSWiPhtgUCSV9EFxWWGwmHgiE7aHvXBFOkrwNnM 42ZkSIGdlNZX18zXO/8bWm1+PMQ8kmhyhwLN7IX1xnq9GiuRjVLH0K1BWMlmK7wk ywD8QXqVOHzN5TmmLjmRic/YOoNsas1T8GK9U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=UUmW3c8drsKS2C4+uLc1HfdhYuQeAbXj hPh9xXuzI9tcUJz6pRbfaPqvYoFLSaEXfqi+q9lRFEuooNgt8B3E/CDpum25uEJv /EZIjVhV/Z95xwtH7IgF5mjJvTaX57kWY5FM44r7ocSxs4PGNFOmX2CdOmP54xBF tW+qYBTB4Po= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAB373DC; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:16:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E03DC73DB; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:16:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20120330005523.GA28519@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:55:23 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4EE09A52-7A0E-11E1-9F5D-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: > Filling in the blank at compile time would be possible, but I'm not > convinced it's a good idea. Wouldn't the same user be just as puzzled > when > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git-htmldocs.git;a=blob_plain;f=git-var.html > > (or whatever page with a nicer URL arises to replace the old > www.kernel.org/... pages) says the fallback is 'vi' and git behaves > differently? I've already rejected this patch once, but that was primarily because the patch was not justified with the above "I read everybody else's git uses 'vi' on the Interweb, and even though my distro's manual page says it uses 'nano', I didn't bother to read it." scenario.